How's your game going /int/? For me the goal is one culture. I've done it once before as Austria. I've conquered the entire old world except Kyoto which I am using as a mana farm. My capital is still in the old world because I wanted to keep changing tags. I dont want to form Rome because thats what I did last time and wanted to make the challenge harder.All I've gotta do now is devour the new world and convert the provinces. Do I have enough time? I have austrian government form and have converted what amounts to iberia and france.
I've moved on to EU5, I can't go back to EU4. It's too familiar.
>>219297086I don't have the patience any more for a world conquest. I've done it countless times already as Ottomans, Oirat and Austria. I hate invading Kilwa the most because of how fucking awkward they are. Good luck anyway matey
>>219297086Post the culture map
>>219297086this is what the world would look like if the Jews never existed
>>219297177Is EU5 worth it? I've decided not to buy it so im gonna wait until its more fleshed out and pirate it>>219297231I still enjoy doing WC's I just try to improve every time >>219297479HereGoing castilian since thats what i started as>>219297734Vgh...
>>219297086i moved to EU5, and EU5 lowkey sucks, but EU4 is so hard and stressful to me because i'm bad at video games so i can't go back picrel my Russian empire campaign where i recreated the historical borders from 1914. do you like it? the wasteland coloring is so buggy and awful
>>219297802Eu5 is easier than 4? The trade and resource management thing felt advanced
>>219297796EU5 is not worth it. the developer justification for removing mission trees is that content is delivered in other ways, such as "situations" and international organizations (which is like, similar to the HRE mechanic in EU4 but there's a lot more of them, illkhanate, holy leagues, etc). but the issue is that all of these things are buggy as fuck and don't work, so there's no content and every run feels aimless and empty AF after a while because of no mission trees. furthermore, the flavor events that are in the game have ridiculously obscure prerequisitesso you won't even see 1/10th of a country's flavor events in a campaign. also colonization and exploration SUCKS and the content falls off hard after roughly the age of discovery, late game had no flavor or content and the content that is there is bugged and shitty. EU4 is better and will be for a few years, at least. don't waste your money, buy it on sale or wait.
>>219297852the economics is more complicated but once you understand how it works there is a generic path you can follow to getting rich as any country without much variance. the warfare, at least for me, is vastly easier. coalitions don't feel like a threat, the AI is genuinely stupid, and unless you play like a genuine retard you can win basically any war as a mid sized or above country. for me EU4 warfare was always so hard and scary, i have 400 hours in EU4 but i still feel so scared and helpless during wars and i've genuinely cried multiple times at the "war declared" screen. lol. the sound effect makes me react like a war veteran with PTSD.
>>219297938this is the sound effect i'm referring tohttps://youtu.be/SfpMNAyKILc?si=UHxjLT-F87ren8ql
>>219297796>Is EU5 worth it? I've decided not to buy it so im gonna wait until its more fleshed out and pirate itIt's a good base to expand from, but it's lacking in flavor.I don't regret paying the Swedes for what ammount to open beta testing.But it's still not in a presentable state, too many bugs, too many rapid changes.
eu5 trade and pop systems make me want to move to eu5 indefinitely but it's still not good enoughi don't get why they don't make the pops actually interact with economyimagine if pops built the economy buildings for themselves and not the crown and based on their needs and used their own money to buy food from the market etc.commoners just love to spam sand pits for me in the middle of the desert like i lack sand or somethingmaybe if the tax collected went to a province money pool and not to an estate money pool and estates from only that province used the money for that province it would reflect prosperity better
>>219297086Bought EU5 a few months ago, don't have the energy to learn how to play it, but I don't wanna play EU4 either because then I might aswell play EU5This happens in your cunt?
>>219297086i recently did a one faith as the knights
>>219297796EU5 probably isn’t worth it yet. I’ve had a lot of fun with it and I’m still playing it over EU4, but the balance keeps flip flopping and some of the stuff is broken. It’s pretty fun with mods and it’ll eventually be peak though. Probably best to wait a little while.
>>219297086I don't know how anyone manages to do this kind of stuff. The game always gets boring to me once you get big enough and then the entire game is just mopping up countries away which is extremely boring and I stop playing.
>>219298853the only world conquest i managed to achieve was with Austria, where you have an army of minions that basically do all the job. it's actually fun.i also tried it with the Mughals, but micromanagement made everything tedious and boring.
>>219297879The introduction of mission trees into eu4 made it dogshit. Your entire playthrough is now pigeonholed into farming free claims and bonuses. Some countries are too OP too. Austria or Russia just steamroll through everyone. The AI, thoeverbeit, cannot handle all this shit and never does the missions in a structured fashion. So every playthrough is either steamrolling via OP missions or playing as some missionless OPM until you hit 1-2k dev and get bored.
>>219297938The warfare in EU5 has more going on and has the potential to be harder, but the AI is too retarded. In EU5, things supply lines and ambushes are possible. EU4 war is so easy. You literally just stack bonuses and get a bigger army and you win. Funnel a bigger army onto your fort so you can fight them on good defensive terrain. There’s nothing else to EU4 warfare.
>>219299159really? i'm open to tips. whenever i play EU4 it feels like even when i pick good national ideas and have a general, even on good terrain my troops get whooped and the enemy always has more. plus they always form huge alliances to kill me. also, i feel like i always fall behind in military technology. i've got 400 hours and still haven't cracked it.
>>219299159>bigger stackNewbie perspective on things. Combat width ultimately limits stack size and having extra troops beyond that makes you lose manpower due to attrition. You can have a 100k stack lose to a 20k stack of Prussian space marines if you attack them in the mountains.
>>219299443>You literally just stack bonuses and get a bigger army and you win.>stack bonusesTry reading what I actually wrote, please. The meme marine strats are literally just bonus stacking. II’ve played a retarded amount of EU4 (over 3,000 hours on steam), and that’s literally all it takes. Sure you can do a meme with Prussia and make space marines, but all that is is bonus stacking, like I said. Most of the time when you are just getting a bigger army and bonus stacking normally and that’s what decides who wins.
>>219297086I was doing an Armenia run but you have to spend centuries getting army professionalism to the tippy top
I want to play EU5 but my PC can't handle it. It's a demanding game on hardware.
>>219300005I thought Finns had best IT experts in Europe.
>>219299375It depends on the country your playing when it comes to the national ideas you get, but none of that matters if you’re behind on mil tech. Your number one goal (if you’re going to be fighting wars) is to keep your mil tech up. Do no spend military points on anything until you have the latest mil tech. If you’re falling behind, make sure you have the latest institutions and you can focus on mil tech by setting your ruler to focus on it (good if he has a shit mil stat). The latter thing will give you +2 mil points at the expense of -1 admin and -1 diplo (iirc) and you can switch the focus every couple decades or something. Once you have the latest mil tech, then spend mil points on national ideas. Only once you have those maxed out should you bother spending mil points on anything else. The national ideas you take depend on your country and your situation. I usually try balancing things out. So if I’m playing a small country with a small army but good morale and discipline default ideas, I would probably take quantity. Defensive and offensive are usually good. Religions can give bonuses too. You just want to collect all the bonuses you can.When fighting wars, you check the other side’s military stats in the ledger. If they’re plainly better than you, just don’t fight the war unless you can greatly outnumber them. Managing coalitions and alliances just takes time getting used to the game. Aside from that, pay attention to terrain. There isn’t too much to it other than that.Some of this info might be outdated though but hopefully it helps
>>219300056I'm poor atm and building pc's just got a lot more expensive
I’m battling Russia and Austria next mp session, what should I do?
>>219299796Your advice sucks for a few reasons.1. Stacking bonuses is due to ideas, which only become relevant in the late 1500s (you need at least 2 mil idea groups, preferably 3). By that point you’ll be OP if you know your shit anyways. Stacking discipline is only an option when you get absolutism, but by then the game is trivial.2. Certain national ideas stack with idea groups. So you can stack bonuses all you like. If you’re faced with France (especially in MP), you will get your ass whooped purely because they’re like one the 3 in-game tags with +20% morale in their national ideas.3. You can stack bonuses all you want, but it won’t save you from stuff like combat width or terrain. You will get fucked attacking in mountains over a river. Dice rolls is what ultimately decides the outcome.4. Bonuses in eu4 are balanced so that you either get manpower or combat bonuses. There’s no point getting quality or offensive ideas as Russia or the Ottomans.
>>219300909>There’s no point getting quality or offensive ideas as Russia or the Ottomans.stupid ass exampleboth those countries have both quality and quantity built in and quantity is better than quality in like 95% of the cases regardless
>>219301148Ottomans were nerfed with their quality tied to the Janissaries estate. The Ottomans now lose practically lose all quality bonuses by absolutism. Russia is the opposite because serfdom makes the late game ass despite giving infinite manpower in the early game.
>>219297802>the wasteland coloring is so buggy and awfulyeah i dont fucking know what they were smoking with that, they know players wanna paint the map with pretty colors so its just aretarded decision
>>219297086Simply putI still find myself going back to CK2 I don’t have that urge with EU4. Bugs and mechanics imbalance aside, Johan cooked
>>219300078>If they’re plainly better than you, just don’t fight the war unless you can greatly outnumber themyes but usually they declare war on you and not the other way around and then I cry and start a new campaign
>>219303907I don’t know how you’re playing because in my games the AI is extremely passive. You’re likely not securing key alliances. Your rivals’ rivals are more likely to be your allies.
>>219301623>I still find myself going back to CK2Why
